Miami Hurricane, October 28, 1980

              THE MIA
Does UM Really Need An On Stadium
Volume 56, No. 18
Tuesday. October 28. 1980
Phone 284-4401
ID Check Not Universally Favored
By WENDELL GAERTNER and TERRY FEIN
Of Tlte Hurrican« Staff
The reinstatement of an identification check at the Otto G. Richter Library upset students who attempted to enter the building without IDs last week.
According to Frank Rodgers, director of libraries, the ID check procedure had always been in effect, but had not recently been enforced. As a result, students from area high schools and community colleges were using the larger UM facilities.
The policy was instituted to prevent such abuses, said Rodgers.
Apparently, not everyone was happy with the decision. Last Friday, according to Dale L. Barker, associate director of libraries, a UM student expressed his discontent with the new policy by kicking the
front exit door of the library.
Barker said the student, whose name was not released, was refused entry by the security guard because he could not produce his ID. In an apparent attempt to kick open the door, the student shattered the glass panel, Barker said.
“Glass flew everywhere and went clear across the [library| breezeway,” said Barker.
“Apparently, it was an accident,” said Sergeant Thomas Springer, of the Public Safety Department.
According to a library employee, who asked not to be identified, the student did have his ID at the time of the incident and was later admitted into the building.
According to Barker, an investigation of the incident will be handled by the Student Affairs Division, rather than by any police agencies.
The Physical Plant will be making an estimate as to the cost of the damage.
The library has had other problems this semester, said Rodgers. These include the presence of a person crawling around on his hands and knees, and looking up girls' dresses. Another source claims that there was someone "smoking pot” in the stacks.
The biggest problem in the library, according to Rodgers, is the noise level in the lower reading rooms. Rodgers said that the UM Library is the noisiest he has ever been in. He said the design of the room is such that the noise of even a few people will carry across it.
Rodgers said the opening of the stacks to all students is working out “very well indeed.” Use of the stacks has not increased greatly, he said. Rodgers noted that whenever he has walked into the stacks, only 20 to 25 percent of the available seats were occupied.
Miami Hurricane/CHRISTOPHER FLORO
Glass Door Was Shattered By Angrv Student
. . . Physical Plant will estimate the cost of replacement
Miami Hurricane/DENNIS DEBLOIS
Opening The Stacks Has Been A Success
. . . according to Director of Libraries Rodgers
Search Uncovers Suspected Drugs
King Will Speak Tomorrow
By MARY CRONIN
Newt Writer
Coretta Scott King, widow of Dr. Martin Luther King. Jr., will be speaking at Gusman Hall on Wednesday, Oct. 29, at 8 p.m.
As president of the Martin Luther King Jr. Center For Social Change, King works to promote a non-violence campaign for social, political, and economic justice throughout the world. The center tries to accomplish these goals by holding seminars and workshops for teachers, community leaders, and administrators who influence the young.
Economic injustice has been the
key issue for the center since its inception. In 1974, the center formed a broad coalition of labor, women, business, civil rights, and religious organizations to push for full employment and economic opportunity for all.
King serves as co-chairperson of the Full Employment Action Council. The council represents 84 national organizations, and promotes the Humphrey-Hawkins Bill as a means of reaching the goal of providing a job at a decent wage for all persons willing and able to work.
King is also active in many other areas. She was named commissioner of the International Women's
Year, and was also appointed by President Carter to be a public delegate to the fall 1977 session of the United Nations General Assembly. There she spent much of her time developing relationships with the emerging nations of the Third World.
She has also been an active member and co-founder of the National Black Leadership Forum, where she has constantly been a leading spokesperson for minorities on issues such as low-cost housing and selection of federal judges.
During her husband's public career, King occasionally substituted for him as a speaker, and also spoke
in her own behalf before church, civic, college, and peace groups throughout the U.S. and abroad. Her trips have taken her to five continents, and she has visited many heads of state.
Among King's most memorable trips were a trip to Ghana with her husband in 1957 to mark that country’s independence, and to Oslo, Norway, in 1964, where her husband was given the Nobel Peace Prize.
King was a women's Strike for Peace Delegate to the 17-nation disarmament conference in Geneva, Switzerland in 1962. She also made an extensive tour of Europe in 1970, to promote her book My Life With Martin Luther King Jr..
Many of King's appearances have been precendent-setting. She was the first woman to deliver the Class Day address at Harvard, and the first woman to preach at a statutory service in St. Paul’s Cathedral in London.
Since 1976, King has picked up 23 awards, including the United Nation's Human Rights Award (given by the United Nations General Assembly), Ombudsman of the Year for the National Association of Negro Business and Professional Women, and the Eleanor Roosevelt Humanities Award.
Miami Hurricane/KERRY
The 12 finalists for the 1980-81 Miss University of Miami Scholarship Pageant were selected Saturday. Pictured from left to right are: (front row) Maria Elena Cullell, Mariette Diane Jeffers, Valerie Williams, and Lillian Louise Nailor; (middle row) Jana Helena Wallis, Daphne Marie Ingraham, Janet Ann Bascome, and Edith G. Williams; and (back row) Martha Baghdoian, Cathy Elisa Herman, Ivy Marie LeVine, and Aixa Maria Diaz. The winner will be chosen on Nov. 3.
King has been named one of the “25 Most Influential Women in America" for five straight years — an honor only six women have received. She also has been named one of Ebony magazine's "100 Most Influential Black leaders.”
King has also been the recipient of over 12 honorary university degrees, including doctorates in Humanities, Law, and Music from such schools as Brandeis University and the New England Conservatory of Music, where as a student she had earned a bachelor’s degree in music.
By MARY CRONIN
Ntwi Writer
An administrative search at Eaton Hall on Thursday, Oct. 23, by
Eaton resident uniBUnU turned up.
a "sizeable” amount of suspected narcotics, according to the UM Public Safety Department (PSD). The seizure included a small amount of suspected marijuana, seven white pills (suspected Quaaludes), and 358 black capsules (suspected amphetamines).
Sergeant Thomas Springer, of Public Safety, said that Eaton Hall resident assistants turned the suspected drugs over to PSD, which, in turn, sent the drugs to the Dade County crime lab for testing.
According to Springer, the search was instituted by the housing office, and is strictly within the University. However, if the lab tests on the suspected drugs are positive, the suspect, whose identity was witheld, will be arrested. But the"State Attorney’s Office makes
the final decision as to prosecution,” said Springer.
According to George Shoffner, director of Residence Halls, in.order
to oMMn • nwch »« Mtzur* warrant from the Residence Halls Office, staff members in all UM housing buildings must have a justification, in writing, for the search warrant.
Once the warrant is issued, the staff members would need written documents stating exactly what is being searched for, said Shoffner.
Shoffner added that if the materials searched for are found, this could then lead to an internal UM disciplinary process.
Public Safety officers said that their department does not get many calls reporting drugs, and therefore has no statistics concerning drug use on campus.
“We have no statistics to prove an increase or a reduction |of drug use and seizure | for 1980, over 1979," said Officer Sally Nichols.
Candidate’s Name Left Off Ballot
By WENDELL GAERTNER
Ntwi Writer
Mark Cheskin, incumbent 1968 Complex senator, was not listed on the ballots at the beginning of the student elections yesterday.
The voting had gone on for about a half hour before the ommission was noticed, according to Brenda Hardy, chairman of the Election Commission.
Cheskin's name was then handwritten on the remaining ballots, and those votes cast before the ommission was noticed were separated from the other ballots. Hardy said that a decision has not been made as to what will be done with these ballots.
Cheskin, a freshman running on the Students' Ultimate Needs (SUN)
ticket, is filling the vacancy created by the resignation of a senator elected last semester. Cheskin petitioned to fill the vacancy, and has been serving as a senator for the past four weeks.
Aurelio Quinones, manager of the SUN ticket, said he was “really outraged" that the ommission occurred. Quinones called Cheskin "one of our strongest workers." He also expressed concern over the image which the handwritten name, next to the rest of the printed names, would present to the voters.
Quinones said he realizes the ommission was accidental, but that the ticket will appeal the ballots if necessary.
Cheskin said, "My own roommate didn't vote for me because my name was not on the ballot."
Tonight’s Debate Winner Will Claim Oval
News Analysis
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By MARK A. WOOSTER
Ntwi Editor
Tonight, from 9:30 to 11 p.m., the U.S. presidential race could be decided. The only debate of the year between Democratic nominee Jimmy Carter and Republican nominee Ronald Reagan will take place.
This debate was a long time in coming. The Carter and Reagan camps could not agree upon participants, sponsors, format, time, or length of the debates. Because of theseAlelays, there is now only time enough for one debate.
There are several reasons why the candidates finally agreed to face one another.
Reagan at first refused to debate Carter unless independent candidate John Anderson was present. Reagan believed that an Anderson candidacy would draw more votes from Carter than from Reagan. Thus, it was to his benefit to make
Anderson seem a legitimate candidate, because voters would be less likely to support Anderson if they did not think he had a chance to win.
Also, Reagan knew that Carter did not wish to debate both Reagan and Anderson simultaneously. Attacking the president’s record was a major part of both of Reagan's and Anderson's campaign strategies, and Carter did not wish to be ganged up on in a debate.
More importantly, the Carter people also believed that Anderson would hurt Carter more than Reagan, and they did not want to legitimize the Anderson candidacy. They believed if Anderson were ignored, his challenge would soon fade away.
Reagan felt that, since opinion polls showed that the American people wanted Anderson in a debate. Reagan could portray himself as a fearless candidate willing to
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take on any challenger, while at the same time make Carter look like he was ducking his opposition, and trying to deny the American public the opportunity to have a wider choice of candidates.
Unfortunately for Reagan, this strategy did not work. Reagan and Anderson debated each other on Sept. 21, while Carter stayed home. But the public did not seem to react negatively to Carter's actions. Reagan was not able to make an issue of Carter's absence at the debate.
Anderson began slipping in the polls, as more and more people became convinced that Anderson could not win, and that voting for
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him was “throwing your vote away."
Reagan also saw his position becoming more tenuous. His lead over Carter was evaporating, and he thought a debate could give his campaign momentum. But Reagan was already on record as saying that Anderson should be included in any debate.
Reagan was given an out when the League of Women Voters said that Anderson no longer rated high enough in the polls to be included in a debate, and announced their intentions to sponsor a Carter-Reagan debate.
Carter, meanwhile, still desired a head-to-head debate with Reagan. He felt that his experience in presidential debates would give him an edge over his opponent, and also believed that a debate would give him a chance to portray Reagan as an arch-conservative, with ideas too radical and simplistic for most Americans.
Thus, Carter and Reagan both accepted the League's invitation, and the two camps hammered out an agreement as to the time and place
Whoever wins this debate will most likely be elected president, barring a spectacular happening on the foreign or domestic scenes.
But, defining a winner in a televised debate can be very difficult. A person can make the better points and still end up the loser In the first presidential debates, between John Kennedy and Richard Nixon in 1960, Kennedy turned up the winner, not because he presented >
his issues more clearly, but because he appeared to be more "presidential."
In the 1976 debates, Gerald Ford said Poland was not dominated by Russia, and turned up a loser.
This time, each candidate will try to avoid a major blunder, while at the same time attempt to present what he feels is the proper image.
Reagan will try to make himself look like a president, while at the same time calming fears that he is simplistic or a warmonger — a fear which could cost him dearly among women voters.
Carter will attempt to appear moderate and knowledgeable, while presenting his record in the most favorable light.
How well they succeed at doing this will be determined at the voting booths on Nov. 4. But almost certainly, the public will not make its decision by a cool examination of the issues, but on appearances.